Climate Change Ecology

• Impacts of multiple environmental stressors on organisms: How multiple climate change variables jointly affect species performance and trophic interactions?

• Integrating biological responses to temperature warming across levels of biological organization: How can we scale up from changes in individuals’ traits and species interactions to predict population dynamics and community structure?

• Effects of environmental variations and extremes on biological responses: What are the importance of variations and extremes vs. means in determining species performance and fitness consequences?

• Novel interactions and trophic mismatches: How climate-driven phenological/geographical shifts and the resulting temporal/spatial synchrony/asynchrony alter species interactions?

• Chemical ecology under climate change: How climate change affects the chemical communications among plants, herbivores, and predators and in turn their trophic interactions?

• The role of phenotypic plasticity in buffering short-term and long-term environmental changes: Will short-term acclimation facilitate or impede long-term adaptation?

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